All instruments
Load factor in a turn
Bank the aircraft in a level turn and watch the load factor and the stall speed go up.
1.00 G
highest 1.00 G
Stall speed in the turn
- Too slow: stall
- Straight and level: 48 kt
- Your speed in this example: 65 kt
Straight and level: your wing carries exactly your weight, 1 G.
- Load factor (n)
- 1.00 G
- You feel
- your normal weight: 165 lb
- Stall speed
- 48 kt, straight and level
- Limit of the example
- +3.8 G, normal category; the real value is in the flight manual